Personality Disorders (Diseases and Disorders)
By Hal Marcovitz


* Publisher: Lucent Books
* Number Of Pages: 96
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1420501151
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781420501155

From Introduction:
There are ten named personality disorders, each of which can range from mild to severe. Some involve a struggle with oneself; obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, for example, is often found among high achieverswho strive, often too hard, for perfection.
Some disorders involve a struggle against society; antisocial personality disorder, for instance, prompts many people to commit violent acts and other crimes. Among the better-known personality disorders are narcissistic personality disorder, whose sufferers need to feel important and in control but have no regard for the feelings of others; borderline personality disorder, which mental health professionals believe is responsible for many suicides, particularly among teens; schizotypal personality disorder, which could prompt its sufferers to become delusional and unstuck from reality; and dependent personality disorder, in which a person becomes clingy, too reliant on others, and unable tomake his or her own decisions.
Mental health professionals have concluded that personality disorders are responsible for a host of social ills. According to John Gunderson, director of personality disorders treatment at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, “The social costs of personality disorders are huge. These people are involved in so many of society’s ills—divorce, child abuse, violence. The problem is tremendous.”


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